God Wartortole and Charmeleon are just both the freaking worst. As far as middle evos go, Quilava's pretty cool. Can't think of another I really like.
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Summer 2013 Anime |10th Dimensional OT| the first ignoble truth: all of life is anime
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God Wartortole and Charmeleon are just both the freaking worst. As far as middle evos go, Quilava's pretty cool. Can't think of another I really like.
nintendoman58
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They probably won't do it, but I hope with all my might that the best first gen Pokémon makes an appearance in this somehow.
And Bulbasaur is awesome.
And Bulbasaur is awesome.
I could see something like that happening as a trick/joke. Maybe they could do an Origin Special/Movie where an illusion pokemon that looks like that is going around. Maybe it could end up being like Mew or something causing it.
Well, okay, but ignore him and the tight pants and pay attention to them sick Charizard and Blastoises.
Typhlosion is the second best Fire Pokemon family after Charizard. Blaziken line is okay, fuck Infernape and its spawn forever and ever because oh my Arceus is Gen IV the worst Gen or what, and Emboar is hilarious.
Hype to the floor.
Hype.
Just a special? Booooo. Better be a long one. Still, those studios. Get hyped! Some right proper Pokemon Sakuga. Really pumped for that.
nintendoman58
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It better be an hour-long special. I want to see the full Red VS. Green/Blue fight complete with a remixed version of this.
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Dewott is my personal favorite middle evo.
Perfect blend of being adorable and a badass
Give me a full 1.5 hour+ special covering the full run gyms through the league. We already see the Lance and Green league fights as well as a Brock fight in the trailer. They better not skip the middle gyms. I'd love to see a redesigned Misty and other leaders.
Forgot about Dewott. He's not bad. Really like that line. I dig both the Leaf and Water lines from that gen, but dear god if the Emboar line not just the worst.
KirbYuuYuu
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I've officially gone off the deep end. Woe is me.
nintendoman58
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All they needed to do for the fire evos for Pignite was turn him into a beastly Pumbaa. But instead, we got this:
Why.
Emboar line isn't as bad as Infernape line. Hope Fennekin's line turns out okay in XY. And also turns out not Fire Fighting.
foxuzamaki
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you can tell that they plan to make red's physical appearance change slightly as the anime goes along, his hair looks shorter in the beginning, and slightly pudgier face, where he looks calmer when talking to lance
KirbYuuYuu
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Infernape was actually good though.
I like both Infernape and his first form. Second form is terrible, but so are most as established. I don't like the Pokemon or fighting with it, but I think the look is fine.
And yeah, really hope Fennekin isn't fighting sub typed. It doesn't look like the type of design that would be, but who knows? Would be really disappointing if it was. Currently my favorite of the new 3.
Not good looking though. That whole line was as ugly a mess as the rest of Gen IV.
Gen IV was ass for designs. V's fixed the pain, though.
nintendoman58
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The worst thing about Infernape was, in the original Diamond and Pearl, you had no damn choice but to choose him as your starter if you wanted a Fire type for the first playthrough. Unless you wanted a Rapidash. But other than that, there were absolutely no other fire types before getting the national dex in the original Diamond and Pearl.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
MILF of the year.
That style looks so much better than the current series. Why can't we get a full show that looks like that? I understand why it can't be all sakuga all the time, but I'd kill for a pokemon show with a decent art style.
I don't like Chespin because he looks basically exactly the same as Oshawott, just grass themed.
Gen IV was not exactly the best gen. Aside from Superior Silver.
KirbYuuYuu
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HEY!
Empoleon was a fucking penguin, it autowins
EDIT: Gen IV sucked period.
HGSS was a mechanical fucking mess.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Who's the character designer for this? For some reason it looks... KyoAniish to me.
HGSS let pokemon follow you. Therefore, any other problems it had are instantly overridden.
A Black Falcon
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prism ilya 4
ooh the big budget eps. show really does feel like a less derpy s1 of lyrical nanoha. Tons of beam spamming and dodging.
While it was pretty funny, I don't get why Miyu has such a hard time understanding flight, while she has no problem doing stuff like shooting giant beams... how is the one so much more plausible than the other?
Vague 3rei [manga] spoiler!
Also considering what she is... yeah. That makes it even harder to explain.
I'm expecting something more like ep. 4, a down episode right after two episodes of intense fighting...
What did you mean, errors?
nintendoman58
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So the special is also going to focus on the fight at Pokémon tower plus a battle with Giovanni.
Hype reaching levels of critical mass.
All this is starting like it's going to be an absolute clusterfuck to get through in one special.
hosannainexcelsis
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No way; KyoAni designs have always been better than that, even when they were adapting Key works. Looks like fairly standard boys' show designs.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Yeah, looking at the sharp chins it's a lot less comparable.
R_thanatos
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Well when i watched the niconico release there were plenty of little thing that weren't good.
Now after comparing i realised that they took 1 scene for the later part of the fight and used 3 times.
In the normal release we've got now , they replaced those parts by some new animation ( i suppose they couldn't get it ready on time or something ) and the scene in question is used only once in the proper context.
i also realised that they added plenty of new effects on some scenes , especially in the last part of the showdown.
It was mainly nitpicking before but the fact that they corrected those make the entire scene flawless now.
hosannainexcelsis
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Uchouten Kazoku 2-3
This show nails the whole magic realism atmosphere, especially in the clock tower scene.
I'm also liking how each episode is bookended by Yasaburo's monologues.
This show nails the whole magic realism atmosphere, especially in the clock tower scene.
I'm also liking how each episode is bookended by Yasaburo's monologues.
dakkumauji
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The dub is 12 episodes behind.
Them weird faces. That weird Charmander.
Haha, I was right.
Well Brock and Lance looks barely similar.
Haha, no.
At least the promo art looks decently nice.
KirbYuuYuu
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Tokyo Mew Mew 3
Ichigo hates ghosts. Oh boy. And obviously we'll get our thirdPrecureAnimal Girl this episode, and I thought Lettuce was going to be 4th. She really looks like Komachi/Cure Mint.... except with glasses and doesn't look as stupid.
And... some random ass drama to boot. It's like... we knew she had some issues with the fuckers Retatsu or whatever was with... and then she randomly attacks them because her body is weird and she can't make friends. That was dumb. At the same time, WAY to go you douchebags, you fucked up a girls life that she didn't even want. You forced it on her.
Speaking of forced, there was onscreen kiss-rape by the enemy. She lost her first kiss. In comparison, kiss rape almost happened in Yes Precure 5! GoGo's movie, but it was a lot creepier.
Ichigo hates ghosts. Oh boy. And obviously we'll get our third
And... some random ass drama to boot. It's like... we knew she had some issues with the fuckers Retatsu or whatever was with... and then she randomly attacks them because her body is weird and she can't make friends. That was dumb. At the same time, WAY to go you douchebags, you fucked up a girls life that she didn't even want. You forced it on her.
Speaking of forced, there was onscreen kiss-rape by the enemy. She lost her first kiss. In comparison, kiss rape almost happened in Yes Precure 5! GoGo's movie, but it was a lot creepier.
Really, it's only three months back? They've come a long way from when it was a year delay; I guess all that time it was airing multiple days a week on Cartoon Network or whatever really paid off to close that gap.
KirbYuuYuu
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Either that or it was because there was always a gap between the game releases, so they treated it as such, so having a worldwide launch for Pokemon X/Y must be letting the anime be so close.
firehawk12
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Hajime makes Madoka and her Marus look like a character that stepped right out of Apocalypse Now. She is quite possibly the most genki super positive character that I've ever seen in fiction and makes all the characters from Aria look like bitter, cynical fucks.
And yet, somehow, I don't find her annoying or grating. If anything, her unyielding optimism that even Anne from the Green Gables could learn from is somehow endearing. It's not just that she's genki. It's that she's fucking swag with her genki. She's probably more positive than all the Precures and the Doremis and My Little Ponies and whatever other magical girl characters put together. lol
Hajime makes Madoka and her Marus look like a character that stepped right out of Apocalypse Now. She is quite possibly the most genki super positive character that I've ever seen in fiction and makes all the characters from Aria look like bitter, cynical fucks.
And yet, somehow, I don't find her annoying or grating. If anything, her unyielding optimism that even Anne from the Green Gables could learn from is somehow endearing. It's not just that she's genki. It's that she's fucking swag with her genki. She's probably more positive than all the Precures and the Doremis and My Little Ponies and whatever other magical girl characters put together. lol
KirbYuuYuu
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I totally think Cure Happy could get along with Pinky Pie considering she has SMILE SMILE SMILE under her belt.
I wish I'd remembered to highlight that when I wrote up my impressions. Lack of wasted time is such a big plus.
This gets annoying pretty damn quick. She's probably my least favorite Precure so far of the three shows I've watched (Smile, Heartcatch, and Futari wa).
KirbYuuYuu
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I can easily think of worse right off the bat, but none of them are in the ones you watched. (well I did put Nao and Reika below her in the long run for reasons stated many times already by others).
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